Visitors Guide To Mount Vernon Classic Reprint

Author : Elizabeth Bryant Johnston
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780484550543
Total Pages : 42 pages
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Download or read book Visitor's Guide to Mount Vernon (Classic Reprint) written by Elizabeth Bryant Johnston and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-04 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Visitor's Guide to Mount Vernon The room in which Col. George Washington made his last appeal to Braddock to forego the civilized methods of warfare in his projected battle with the Indians before the disastrous engagement of Monon gahela, 1755, remains unchanged, and is well worth a visit. In this neighborhood is the Marshall House, rebuilt upon the site of the one in which Col. Ellsworth was shot in 1861. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Elizabeth Bryant Johnston
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ISBN 13 : 9781332789542
Total Pages : 96 pages
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Download or read book Visitors' Guide to Mount Vernon (Classic Reprint) written by Elizabeth Bryant Johnston and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-27 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Visitors' Guide to Mount Vernon Court-house, which, though near, is not visible from the river. Below the junction, on the Maryland side, is Gies boro Point, which during the late war was used by the Government as a. Corral for horses. A little beyond are the Naval Powder Magazines, which were removed from the vicinity of the city in consequence of the danger to the Capitol in the event of an explosion. Below Giesboro Point is the river terminus of the extension of the Baltimore and Ohio rr. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Elizabeth Bryant Johnston
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330464878
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Visitor's Guide to Mount Vernon written by Elizabeth Bryant Johnston and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-25 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Visitor's Guide to Mount Vernon An extensive traveller and witty friend of the writer sweepingly declares that "Guide-books contain everything which one does not wish to know." With the hope that the brevity of the following pages will save this little Guide from even the suspicion of conveying undesirable information, the possessor is respectfully invited to peruse it first, and render judgment afterwards. It is simply designed as a practical assistant to the visitor to Mount Vernon, all merely patriotic or poetic sentimentality being purposely avoided. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Elizabeth Bryant Johnston
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 77 pages
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Download or read book Visitor's Guide to Mount Vernon written by Elizabeth Bryant Johnston and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Elizabeth Bryant Johnston
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Download or read book Visitors' guide to Mount Vernon, by Elizabeth B. Johnston written by Elizabeth Bryant Johnston and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : J. E. Jones
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780484781435
Total Pages : 80 pages
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Download or read book Mount Vernon written by J. E. Jones and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-25 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Mount Vernon: The Home of Washington Ensive and retrospective, my feelings when visiting Mount Vernon have been much the same as those of a great many other people, and though I have been there time and again, an intangi ble something bids me to return - it is the magnet, I merely the needle. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : William H. Snowden
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780365346920
Total Pages : 112 pages
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Download or read book Some Old Historic Landmarks of Virginia and Maryland written by William H. Snowden and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-22 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Some Old Historic Landmarks of Virginia and Maryland: Described in a Hand-Book for the Tourist Over the Washington, Alexandria and Mount Vernon Electric Railway One beautrful Saturday afternoon, a few \i eeks before the lamentable tragedy vvhrch concentrated the attentron of the country on Alexandrra, James Jackson, who was the lessee of the Marshall House, a sort of tavern, more than a hotel, srtuated on the southeast corner of Krng and Prtt Streets, flung to the breeze, from the roof of that burldrng, a large srzed Confederate flag, wrth the defiant assertron that the man who lowered It would do so over hrs dead body 'lhe occasron was one of some rejorcrng and enthusrasm among those ho had cast them fortunes wrth the Confederacy, or who sympathrzed wrth the drsunron movement. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : W. H. Snowden
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ISBN 13 : 9781331738923
Total Pages : 130 pages
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Download or read book Some Old Historic Landmarks written by W. H. Snowden and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-19 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Some Old Historic Landmarks: Of Virginia and Maryland, Described in a Hand-Book for the Tourist Over the Washington-Virginia Railway The tourist who boards the train of the Washington, Alexandria and Mount Vernon Electric Railway at the corner of Thirteen and a half street and Pennsylvania Avenue in the National Capital, for a ride to the Home and Tomb of George Washington will pass through a region of country whose every locality bears the vivid impress of most interesting as well as important historical associations, reaching back through nearly three hundred years of the beginnings and progress of our country in the march of civilization and advancement. On every stream and thoroughfare, in every valley and on every hill crest there is some memento or land mark, in whatever direction the eye may range to remind of the pioneers who transformed the wastes of the wilderness, marked the bounds of the homesteads, laid the hearth stones, established the neighborhoods and set up the altars of the Virginia Commonwealth. Aside from the great historic interest which pertains to every portion of the way of this desirable route to Mount Vernon, there is also for the tourist a pleasing diversity of natural scenery, of which the broad skirting river forms a very attractive part. As the train passes down 14th street towards the Potomac, the beautifully diversified grounds of the Agricultural Department, those of the Smithsonian Institute and of the National Museum and the Botanical Gardens, comprising a large area reaching to the foot of the Capitol may be seen on the left. The extensive and varied collections in the spacious buildings of these grounds from all lands and climes amply illustrating the mineral, animal and vegetable Kingdoms of nature will well repay a visit. On the right are the monumental grounds from which rises the great shaft erected to the memory of General George Washington. This structure rises to the height of a little over 555 feet above ground level and 600 feet above mean tide water, and is the highest work of masonry in the world. It is built of granite and marble and contained in its wall is a block of native copper weighing 2100 pounds from Lake Michigan. Its foundations are of blue stone laid 16 feet in depth. The topmost stone weighs over 3000 pounds. The whole structure is surmounted by a point of aluminium 91/2 inches high and 51/2 inches square at its base weighing 100 ounces, the cost of which was $225. Whiter than silver and not liable to corrosion this point as the sunlight strikes it, glistens like a huge diamond or an intense electric light. The base of the shaft is 55 feet square, with walls 15 feet thick. The whole structure weighs more than 80000 tons. Just under the pyramidon or pinnace stone is a platform with an area of 1167 feet from which, through eight windows, the visitor has magnificent prospects of the surrounding country. Here, the walls are 18 inches thick. The corner stone was laid July 4th, 1848, and finished in 1885 at a cost of $1,500,000. On an average 500 visitors ascend the monument daily at a yearly cost to the government of $20,000. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works

Author : Thomas Nelson Page
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780267679874
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mount Vernon and Its Preservation, 1858-1910 written by Thomas Nelson Page and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-03 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Mount Vernon and Its Preservation, 1858-1910: The Acquisition, Restoration, and Care of the Home of Washington by the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union for Over Half a Century Of miles below the Capital of the Nation, rises a high bluff, crowned by an old Virginia mansion of equal dignity and simplicity, surrounded by grounds filled with noble trees and flanked by the customary out-buildings of an old Virginia plantation of the better sort. To the eye of the way farer, it would, even were its history unknown, appear, seated as it is, embowered in trees, a haven of rest for those buffeted by the storms of the outer world. For this is Mount Ver. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Charles B. Tiernan
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780364030240
Total Pages : 226 pages
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Download or read book The Tiernan Family in Maryland (Classic Reprint) written by Charles B. Tiernan and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Tiernan Family in Maryland Some of the family immigrated to America, during the last century. Patrick Tiernan, a cousin of Luke Tier nan, of Baltimore, was in the Revolutionary army. Upon the west side of the Dining Room at Mount Vernon, is the large picture, by Rembrandt Peale, of Washington Before Yorktown. There is a separate description of it; as well as one on page 28 of the Visitors' Guide to Mount Vernon. It says: This equestrian portrait of Washington, accompanied by Generals Lafayette, Hamilton, Knox, Lincoln and Rochambeau, represents him in the act of giving orders to commence the entrenchment before Yorktown, the scene of the concluding act of the great drama of the Revolution. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.